Plastic Recycling & Waste Management
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Plastic Recycling & Waste Management Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Plastic Recycling & Waste Management (subject code 3152303) as prescribed for Plastics · Semester 5 divides the course into 8 units, covering 23 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3152303)Unit 1 Introduction to Plastic Waste
- Definitions regarding plastic waste Sources of Plastic Waste Plastics Cycle-Flow of plastics products & plastics waste Generation of Industrial Plastic waste
- Concept of 4R
Unit 2 Seperation
- Separation of components of municipal solid refuse-Size reduction & Separation methods
- Separation Processes Specific to plastics-Separation of Paper/Plastics mixture
- Separation of plastics from Plastic-coated fabric
- Separation of mixtures of Plastics Separation using Recycling Codes
Unit 3 Primary Recycling
- Degradation of thermoplastics due to repetitive processing-Mechanisms Granulators
- Granulating difficult materials- Cryogenic Grinding
- Reprocessing low Bulk- density plastic waste with plunger and screw type of stuffer
- In-line Automatic Recycling Systems
Unit 4 Secondary Recycling
- Approaches to secondary Recycling Equipment Requirements Equipments for Reworking of Mixed Plastic waste-Mitsubishi Reverzer
- FN machine
Unit 5 Subject Code
- AY 2018-19 Secondary Recycling by Co-extrusion and Co-injection Molding Use of Plastic waste as fillers 5 Tertiary Recycling Pyrolysis and Pyrolysis systems for Municipal solid refuse Pyrolysis of Plastics waste-Pyrolysis reactions Reactors for Pyrolysis of Plastics-Union Carbide’s apparatus
- Japan Steel works Ltd
- System Chemical decomposition of plastics waste
Unit 6 Quaternary Recycling
- Energy recovery from municipal solid refuse Incinerators Incineration of predominantly plastics waste- Problems associated with incineration of pure plastic waste
- Incinerators suitable for Plastics waste
Unit 7 Disposal of waste plastics without the recovery of value
- Incineration without the recovery of energy Landfill-Open Dumping & Sanitary Landfill Plastics in Landfill
Unit 8 Recycling of various Plastics and Plastic Products
- Recycling of HDPE containers
- Recycling of PP/HDPE woven sacks to pellets
- Recycling of PE films/plastic bags
- PET Recycling
- recycling of PVC, Recycling of PS, Recycling of PU, Recycling of medical waste Environmental Implications of Recycling & Polymer Degradation
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